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Komorebi—A Beautiful Japanese Word That English Needs

www.morethantokyo.com
2024-08-27T18:10:39.598Z
japanese words poetry nature trees imported:raindrop

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Highlight:Komorebi is a word that we English speakers could really use. And not just to add to our vocabulary, but also to our lives. It is formed from the Japanese word for “tree,” 木, the word that means “to leak,” 漏れ, and the word for “sun,” 日. Komorebi is a word that we English speakers could really use. And not just to add to our vocabulary, but also to our lives. It is formed from the Japanese

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World Wide Words: Nerd

www.worldwidewords.org
2012-03-24T12:24:22.000Z
funny nerd words to:fb imported:pinboard

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Cartoonists, illustrators and other artists have used nerds to mean eraser crumbs for more than sixty years. When I worked at newspapers in the sixties, we had a special brush for getting rid of nerds before inking a drawing because the tiny pieces of rubber would cause blots and blobs on the art.

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S#*@ scientists say

boingboing.net
2011-10-19T02:36:34.000Z
words vocabulary science imported:pinboard

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10 Words You Might Think Came from Science (But Are Really From Science Fiction  ) [Daily 10]

feeds.gawker.com
2011-10-17T17:00:00.000Z
scifi words imported:pinboard

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THE FUTUROLOGIAN CONGRESS

burri.to
2008-06-12T06:05:36.000Z
futurologian congress future words imported:pinboard

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"In The Futurological Congress, Stanislaw Lem's protagonist finds himself discussing futurology with a scientist and discovers it has been superceded by futurology — the science of predicting the future by making up words and guessing what they might me

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Linguistic humor

www.ling.upenn.edu
2007-10-05T15:38:09.000Z
via:vielmetti decafalon words language funny linguistics imported:pinboard

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"decafalon the grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you"

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Dictionary.com/Word of the Day Archive/deus ex machina

dictionary.reference.com
2006-02-09T16:04:42.000Z
language vocabulary words imported:pinboard

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"Any active agent who appears unexpectedly to solve an apparently insoluble difficulty."

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Eastern Standard Tribe

craphound.com
2004-02-04T16:39:38.000Z
books words imported:pinboard

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"This is the second novel I've made available as a free download..."

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